Get Down with Brown Trivia Quiz

Answer: Brown

Rainbows appear when the Sun shines on droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. Rain, spray, mist and even dew can bring on this effect. The mnemonic "ROY G. BIV" is the standard way to remember the colours. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Sometimes a fainter rainbow can be seen outside the primary arc. The best view is at an angle of 40-42 degrees.

Answer: Oda Mae Brown

In the film, Oda Mae Brown was a con artist posing as medium who could communicate with the dead. She came to realize that she really could after a murdered man (Patrick Swayze) spoke to her, and convinced her to help solve his murder. This character provided a number of comedic moments to a dramatic movie.

Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson in Manhattan, New York, on November 13, 1955. Her performance in "Ghost" won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She is one of only a handful of performers to have won an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, and a Tony award. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2001.

Answer: All of these

The brown bear is the national animal of Finland. It is officially listed as a "least concern" species, with a total worldwide population of about 200,000.
Females do not become sexually mature until the age of five, and will produce litters of one to four cubs. Given their size, it's amazing that baby cubs weigh less than one pound at birth, and are born without hair or teeth.

Brown bears will venture into cities and towns in search of food. While rare, there is an average of two fatal brown bear attacks against humans in North America each year.

Answer: Survived the sinking of the Titanic

Margaret Brown became known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown" after her death in 1932. She was a philanthropist, activist and socialite. She was one of the first students enrolled at the Carnegie Institute in New York. She helped to establish the National American Woman's Suffrage Association in Colorado, and even ran for the Senate in 1909.

Ruth Handler created the Barbie Doll in 1959. Annie Edson Taylor survived a plunge over Niagara Falls in 1901, Mary Anderson patented the windshield wiper in 1905 and by 1916 it became standard equipment for all cars.

Answer: Providence, Rhode Island

Brown was originally named the College of Rhode Island and located in the town of Warren when it was founded in 1764. The Brown family was instrumental in bringing the school to Providence in 1770, providing a great deal of funding. It was renamed in 1804, in honour of Nicholas Brown Jr., who graduated in 1786 and made significant monetary contributions to the school. The mascot is a bear named Bruno, and the school colours are seal brown, cardinal red and white.

Cambridge, Massachusetts is home to Harvard University, New Haven to Yale and Hanover to Dartmouth, all Ivy League schools.

Answer: 4 points

The game of snooker is believed to be derived from other billiards games by Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (no relation to the World War II Prime Minister), while serving in India in 1875. The name itself came to be when Chamberlain called a young officer a "Snooker", referring to his inexperience after missing a shot.

The game consists of one white cue ball, fifteen red balls worth one point each, and six coloured balls. Yellow (2 points), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6), and black (7). Players must sink a red ball, followed by a coloured ball and so on until all balls are down. The player with the most points wins the game.

Answer: Dan Brown

Dan Brown was born June 22, 1964, in Exeter, New Hampshire. He was a teacher for many years before becoming a full time writer in 1996. He was also a singer-songwriter, releasing a CD in 1991 entitled Perspective. "The Da Vinci Code" was his fourth novel, and it rose to number one on the New York Times Best Seller List in just its first week of sales.

His novels have been translated into more than forty languages.

Answer: All of these

In 1958, Crayola formulated a copper colour for its crayons. Taupe originally referred to the colour of the French mole. Today, it is much more vague, referring to any grayish-brown colour. It often overlaps with tan and causes many arguments as to what "taupe" really is. Ochre derives from the Greek language, and is a light yellow-brown colour.

Answer: UPS

UPS is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and was founded in 1907. They are the world's largest package delivery and express courier service. They are famous for their little brown trucks and employee uniforms. The company's first official tagline didn't come until 1982: "UPS saves you money from the ground up".

"Eat Fresh" is a slogan used by Subway. McDonalds has had many advertising taglines including "You Deserve A Break Today", and "I'm Loving It". FedEx had a very successful tagline with, "Absolutely, Positively, Overnight".

Answer: Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

A friend whom Croce served with in the Army served as the inspiration for the song. "Time in a Bottle" was also a number one song for Croce. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1990.

Unfortunately, on September 20, 1973, just one day before his third album "I Got a Name" was to be released, Jim Croce died in a plane crash in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He was only thirty years old.